By George Stephanopoulos / @GStephanopoulos
Apr 1, 2012 1:18pm
After 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot dead, in part, for apparently looking suspicious in a hooded sweatshirt, former Obama administration adviser Van Jones said he now feels like he has to dress his sons to the nines every day for their safety. “I think I’m going to have to go broke dressing [my sons] in tuxedos every day so they can walk down the streets to buy a Snickers bar or Skittles,” Jones said today during the “This Week” roundtable discussion. The story of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, hoodie-wearing black teenager who was shot dead in Florida by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, has erupted across the country, sparking protests, walkouts and calls for Zimmerman to be tried for murder. Jones, a father of two boys, said the case makes him fear for the safety of his own family. “As a black parent, I don’t know how to protect my sons,” the former White House environmental policy adviser said. “When you are a victim of a crime, if something happens to your child, the only upside is that the police are going to be on your side. If your child dies at the hands of somebody who’s armed — until now, here I am as a black parent … I don’t know if the cops are on my side.” ABC’s George Will said the case had been blown way out of proportion because “The New York Times rather infamously now decided that Mr. [George] Zimmerman was a white Hispanic,” making the case about race. “This episode has been forced into a particular narrative to make it a white-on-black,” Will said on “This Week.” “The root fact is, though, Mr. Jones, that about 150 black men are killed every week in this country and 94 percent of them by other black men.” Under Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, Zimmerman was within his rights to use deadly force against Martin if he was acting in self defense. ABC’s “Nightline” anchor Terry Moran, who has been following the case extensively said the Florida law “makes it very difficult to trust our system, trust the jury, let them find the facts and do justice.” But conservative commentator Ann Coulter said the case has “nothing to do with the ‘Stand Your Ground’ law.”
“That is completely wrong,” she said on “This Week,” arguing that there are two plausible stories, neither of which gave Zimmerman the option to retreat. “It is only is relevant if someone had an opportunity to retreat,” Coulter argued. “In one case, you have Zimmerman, the white Hispanic, tracking down the suspicious looking kid, just because he’s black, blowing him away. The question is, did he have to retreat? No, he’s the one doing the stalking.” In the second scenario, Zimmerman is “on the ground being beaten up by Trayvon Martin,” Coulter said. “There’s no possibility of retreating when you’re on the ground.” “This is simple self defense on — at least George Zimmerman’s [part],” Coulter concluded.

Ann Coulter is not backing off of the “our Blacks” are more impressive than the blacks of the Democrat Party talk. The thing that is most glaring is that she really seems to think that what she is saying is in fact a compliment to the blacks in the Republican Party. This paternalistic, arrogant attitude is reflective of someone clueless on race relations. It hearkens back to the day when some white people would say “you are a credit to your race.” This is the same kind of talk with a millenial spin.

Ann Coulter says “our blacks” are better than their blacks. Really, I thought blacks were free so how can she call Cain one of hers? Sure she was attempting to define him as one theirs and she meant conservative, but that is not what she said. What she said was troubling at best and patronizing at worse.

Ann Coulter was on Sean Hannity’s show trying to defend Andrew Breitbart. she claims he was “set up”. No he was not set up his mission was very clear…embarrass the NAACP, and if it took a little race baiting that was the price he was willing to pay. He does not deserve an apology. He is being criticized by his peers on the right and his enemies on the left and that is what he deserves, but Coulter is just looking for a way to make the villian the victor and few are buying her very biased assessment.